Telephone exchange "Hansa"
The former telephone exchange "Hansa" in Bremen - Eastern suburb , district Hulsberg , Friedrich-Karl-Strasse 55 / corner of Bismarckstrasse , is an administration building. It is a listed building .
The building was listed as a cultural monument in Bremen in 2006 .
history
From 1901 to 1904 the first Bremen telephone building was built on Neuenstrasse. The rapid local development of telephone traffic will soon necessitate a new building.
The four-storey, plastered building with a mighty hipped roof and the two-storey outbuildings were from 1915 to 1922 by the architect Post Baurat Schaffer and Regierungsbaumeister B. Lühring (construction management) for the Reich Postal Administration as a telephone service building of the Imperial upper post office built. Due to the war, it could not be completed until 1922.
According to the State Monument Preservation Office (LfD), the ensemble of the main and ancillary buildings of the former telephone exchange “Hansa” is “a locally important document of the early history of the telephone system in Bremen”. In the main building, the switching offices were located on the 2nd floor, extending over 1 ½ storeys, which can be seen in the facade design. Given the considerable and representative construction effort, the building sculptures as telephoning putti are remarkable. According to LfD, the buildings show “a good creative, contemporary design. The ensemble is one of the outstanding administrative buildings of this time ”.
Today (2014) the building is being renovated by the Bremen-Mitte u. a. for the Social Pediatric Institute - Children's Center Bremen (SPZ), for Forensic Medicine Bremen, the Institute for Chinese Medicine and the Center for Modern Diagnostics Bremen .
literature
- Schäfer: The buildings of the Deutsche Bundespost. In: Bremen and its buildings 1900-1951 , pp. 185/186, 1952.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 29.7 " N , 8 ° 50 ′ 40.8" E